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The welfare system would be a combo of handouts, a universal health care system, and a universal school system based on 10 grades, and the higher education would not be based on wealth but on passing a test. This however needed money and so it was opposed by the black faction it was made up of three parties{ Aryamehr ,Iranian National Party, and the Party of Islam}. The tenets of this party were national conservative, and anti immigrant, usually Jews and Slavs who went to work on the railroads. The Noble classes opposed this too,and plotted to replace him by his brother Ali ,he was a reactionary, and hated his brother ,and his wife. He was a what we could call a ultranationalist, and a douche. He had a idea of a putsch that would restore the monarchy, to an absolutist form. The coup would take place on September 3, 1871,the shah’s birthday, and when the liberal general Darya Shirazi heard about the planned coup involving the black faction , through a drunk general.
He had told the Imperial Guard, and the navy about the planned coup, During the shah’s birthday the shah was suppose to travel around Iran from Baku to Bukhara, but he stayed home due to his wife‘s illness. So they rigged the shah’s private train car with the First minister in it with 200 lbs of TNT in it. The train ride began, and it ran for 30 minutes until it blew up, and the military will be on Shiraz, and Isfahan. What they didn’t know that Darya began to fortify those cities with the imperial guard units, and a make shift military considering the circumstances. The coup planners only brought a few cannons; not planning for an actual war it was just to scare the Shah to abdicate. The generals were shocked when they saw 25,000 men armed with guns with 12,000 imperial guards that bought several cannons, and rockets in both cities, Darya also spread the news among the working class, and small landowners, they brought even more peasants to surround the coup planners.
When they fetched the shah, and told him of his brother’s coup. He ordered the rest of the military not loyal to Ali to arrest him, and execute him. The coup planners knew that they were screwed, so they had to beg the shah not to killed them, and they begged but the pleas fell on deaf ears. Abbas the IV ordered the arrest of the military officers ,and anyone in the plot, that included most of the nobles, some of the clergy ,and a sprinkle of Big businessmen. When the trials, and executions ended in 1873 the black faction was destroyed due to most of their supporters being discredited. The new party that swept the election was called Tudeh, and the People’s party of the green faction. They pushed the reforms of the shah, but added even more reforms for factory workers like a minimum wage, 8 hours workday, no child labor,and the right to form unions. They would also regulate the banking industries, break up several monopolies, and brought several rights for the poor.
In 1874 a war loomed with China, and Siam they fought over a trade dispute, the Chinese had 70,000 men with guns, and some cannon the Qing had been modernizing after a war with Russia in which the Russians seized outer Manchuria,for a port on the pacific ,and a quick war for the masses. Due to the Qing's weak,and outdated armies,they got beaten badly. A flu epidemic was the cause of china's weakness at that time crop seasons.,and several that were very bad The Emperor signed the treaty of Beijing which ceded Outer Manchuria to Russia. Afterwards the Emperor began to modernize china by changing the civil service system, abolishing the 8 banner armies, outlawing the queue, and beginning to Industrialization, the Daquang restoration as it would be called changed china from backward to modern.
He had told the Imperial Guard, and the navy about the planned coup, During the shah’s birthday the shah was suppose to travel around Iran from Baku to Bukhara, but he stayed home due to his wife‘s illness. So they rigged the shah’s private train car with the First minister in it with 200 lbs of TNT in it. The train ride began, and it ran for 30 minutes until it blew up, and the military will be on Shiraz, and Isfahan. What they didn’t know that Darya began to fortify those cities with the imperial guard units, and a make shift military considering the circumstances. The coup planners only brought a few cannons; not planning for an actual war it was just to scare the Shah to abdicate. The generals were shocked when they saw 25,000 men armed with guns with 12,000 imperial guards that bought several cannons, and rockets in both cities, Darya also spread the news among the working class, and small landowners, they brought even more peasants to surround the coup planners.
When they fetched the shah, and told him of his brother’s coup. He ordered the rest of the military not loyal to Ali to arrest him, and execute him. The coup planners knew that they were screwed, so they had to beg the shah not to killed them, and they begged but the pleas fell on deaf ears. Abbas the IV ordered the arrest of the military officers ,and anyone in the plot, that included most of the nobles, some of the clergy ,and a sprinkle of Big businessmen. When the trials, and executions ended in 1873 the black faction was destroyed due to most of their supporters being discredited. The new party that swept the election was called Tudeh, and the People’s party of the green faction. They pushed the reforms of the shah, but added even more reforms for factory workers like a minimum wage, 8 hours workday, no child labor,and the right to form unions. They would also regulate the banking industries, break up several monopolies, and brought several rights for the poor.
In 1874 a war loomed with China, and Siam they fought over a trade dispute, the Chinese had 70,000 men with guns, and some cannon the Qing had been modernizing after a war with Russia in which the Russians seized outer Manchuria,for a port on the pacific ,and a quick war for the masses. Due to the Qing's weak,and outdated armies,they got beaten badly. A flu epidemic was the cause of china's weakness at that time crop seasons.,and several that were very bad The Emperor signed the treaty of Beijing which ceded Outer Manchuria to Russia. Afterwards the Emperor began to modernize china by changing the civil service system, abolishing the 8 banner armies, outlawing the queue, and beginning to Industrialization, the Daquang restoration as it would be called changed china from backward to modern.
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